The Momo Challenge: the New Dangerous Social Media Game to Warn Your Kids About

Perhaps you’ve noticed that on this website, we make it one of our missions to encourage parents to keep their young children off of social media. Social media wasn’t designed for kids, and therefore they face much more danger from its pitfalls than adults do. One such huge pitfall is the trend of social media “challenges” in which kids take dares or are taunted into risky behaviors via peer pressure. It sounds cliché, but it’s totally true. From eating poisonous Tide Pods to making yourself pass out, these social media challenges can be quite dangerous to an impulsive tween or teen who can’t properly conceive of the consequences. The latest “bad boy” on the social media challenge block? The Momo challenge.

What is the Momo challenge?

The Momo challenge, according to several online sources including ABC19 in Cleveland, is a social media challenge through the very popular WhatsApp (which is on the “NO” list, moms and dads!!). The popular info site Wikipedia explains it this way:


Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapson
Jenny is a follower of Christ, a wife and mom of three from Ohio and a freelance writer and editor.

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